"When I am asked to look into cases of "admin abuse" and I choose to do so, I generally find myself astounded at how nice we are to complete maniacs, and for how long." - Jimbo Wales
Sweet, sweet userboxes
This user will never be an administrator for the simple reason that he cares more about the health of Wikipedia than he does the status of your delicate little feelings.
I'm in Iraq right now so my ability to respond to questions and comments or keep abreast of everything wiki related is not going to be all that hot. I'm sorry if I seem inattentive or hit and miss but my internet access and free time does not occur with any perdictable regularity.
What I'm doing here
"Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do." - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by the great Mark Twain.
I'm planning alot more play in the German divisions of World War Two articles and stubs (but I never seem to have the time) as some of those are rather woeful. I am planning on writing some full length articles from scratch within the next couple months. I was very suprised to see that only two Special Forces Groups have their own articles so I've started one on both the 1st and 5th in my sandbox. I hope to have a full length "B" class article on at least two or three of these Groups sooner rather than later. I need some more time to gather additional physical references and so have to make a few more raids on my local library first.
I find myself doing alot more cleaning and wikipeida process "play" the longer I'm here. I'm an advocate of excellence and accountability which pretty much also makes me a deletionist. I've been doing alot of clean up in the fandom areas of wikipedia as well. I have alot of concerns about the content formating and inclusion of fandom, subculture and fiction based articles. I think, with some exceptions, the Tolkien and Song of Ice and Fire pages are great examples of how primary sourced fiction should be formated. I'm trying to get together some others both inside and out of the wikipedia community to give most of the more cruft-tastic aSoIaF articles a new home in a dedicated wiki. If any of this sounds of any interest then stop by and give me a hand!
Check out my edit list here for a better idea of where I spend my time.
"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it." -Voltaire
I was born in Newport Beach, California and was raised in the Seattle area of Washington State, more specifically in the town of Bremerton. I attended school in the Central Kitsap School District before dropping out of Highschool and spending two years at Olympic College and joining the United States Marine Corps. Most applicable things about myself as a Wikipedian (and alot that's probably not) can be found in my Userboxes.
I've been stationed in or based out of the following places and deployed in support of these Operations. If you have any question about any of this subject material or need anything cited about them or the United States Marine Corps in general please say so on my talk page and, Classification levels allowing, I'll do what I can to help. Happy editing!
Stunning admin abuse of community process and established, consensus built policy in the worst AfD close for a policy compliant and encyclopedic article that I can recall. Way to cave in wikipedia, your ability to shy away from conflict pales only to your cowardly herd mentality.